Crime & Safety
Kinnelon Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Girl In Bergen
Joseph Difalco, 67, is due to appear at a detention hearing Friday.
PARAMUS, NJ — A Kinnelon man was charged with sexual assaulting a girl after authorities conducted an investigation recently.
Joseph Difalco, 67, was charged with second-degree sexual assault by sexual contact and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, said Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal.
The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office received information Thursday at Difalco had inappropriate sexaul contact with a girl and the office's Special Victims Unit, along with the Norwood Police Department, investigated, Grewal said.
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Difalco was arrested Monday in Paramus, the prosecutor said. He appeared in Bergen County Central Judicial Processing Court Tuesday and was remanded to the Bergen County pending a detention hearing scheduled for Friday.
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Photo: Joseph Difalco, 67, of Kinnelon/Bergen County Prosecutor's Office
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